Pawing Through the Past
2000 • 305 pages

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"Emotions are running high around tiny Crozet, Virginia, among the class of 1980, as plans get under way for the upcoming twentieth high school reunion. There's nothing like a reunion to stir up memories, rivalries, and insecurities. It's even put Crozet's normally placid postmistress, Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen, who's on the committee, on edge, as she wonders if everything will come together on time.

Still, when each member of the class receives an anonymous letter edged in the Crozet High School colors that reads "You'll never get old," Harry takes it as a compliment. Others think it's a joke. But even blitzed out on fresh catnip, Mrs. Murphy senses a much more sinister meaning. And the sly tiger cat is soon proven right...when divinely handsome Charlie Ashcraft, the class womanizer, turns up dead with a bullet between his eyes. At first folks around Crozet figure that when a man is sleeping with other men's wives, trouble is sure to follow.

But when another threatening note to the members of the Class of 1980 is followed by the murder of a second classmate, it becomes all too clear that someone is determined to spoil this reunion - someone who has waited twenty years to take bitter revenge."--BOOK JACKET.

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May 7, 2012

Not even the cute antics of Mrs. Murphy, Tee Tucker, and Pewter could save this convoluted mystery. This is my least favorite of the series so far. And frankly, this mystery isn't “cozy”. I still love these animal characters so much, but I think I'll put this series on the back burner for now.

November 19, 2020